Laid-off and remaining id Software staff are back at the studio's Richardson office today for CWA's Save Our Devs action, 11:30 local at 1500 N Greenville Ave. It is one of eight coordinated rallies across the US and Canada, including Austin, Rockville, Hunt Valley, Redmond, Minneapolis, Albany, and Montreal.

A Texas WARN filing in July put the id cut at 136 of about 185 jobs: 96 on site, 40 remote. CWA Local 6215 organized the studio wall-to-wall in December 2025. Producer Andrew Willis, laid off in that wave, spoke at the first Richardson rally on July 15.

"I don't think it's right what they're doing to these folks and to show people the door after so many loyal years of producing great value and providing service to the company. We're going to use this time to organize and fight back."

On the studio itself:

"The people that had that institutional knowledge of how to execute that; the people who have that information in their head are all gone. It's really unclear to me how they'll proceed at the same bar that folks are used to."

CWA District 6 vice president Derrick Osobase named the damage in the union's July 7 statement:

"It is our CWA members who make the games that make Xbox valuable. Today's layoffs decimated the teams at id Software, Bethesda Game Studios, and ZeniMax Online Studios, legendary studios whose employees brought us games like Doom, Quake, Elder Scrolls, and Fallout."

CWA president Claude Cummings Jr. added:

"When Microsoft decides to treat the workers who built Xbox as expendable, it should know who they're dealing with."

The ask today is the same as last month: layoff protections and first contracts. CWA says it brought those proposals months ago and Microsoft sat on them. The union filed an NLRB charge on July 15 (16-CA-390759) over discretionary layoffs. Texas workers are still being paid through Sept. 4 under WARN, but Willis said they were already locked out of company systems.

UVW-CWA is streaming the actions on Twitch. CWA media: Sean Nesmith, [email protected].

Source: Action Network (Richardson), Save Our Devs campaign, KERA, CWA, Texas AFL-CIO, Game Developer / WARN